We mentioned last week a suspicious pop up appearing on one of Liverpool Chamber’s main website pages, and the possibility it could be a virus.

We’ve since heard from the people who host the site, who say:

“After checking with our colleagues here it seems this activex prompt does only appear if your PC does not have the Microsoft Data Access Services Add On installed. In some PCs this add-on is already installed by Windows depending on the version you have.

However this cannot be a virus, it is some MS drive required to run some of your code on the website and users have to install the Add On as is required by the browser.”

Concerned visitors can get a Microsoft security update here. 

If you are anyway unsure about the message, the best advice is to simply ignore it. Nothing will happen unless you click the message.